Univesity of Maryland: Department of Biology
University of Maryland
WILLIAM FAGAN
Associate Professor
email:bfagan@glue.umd.eduphone:
301.405.4672 (office)
301.405.4512 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:3235 Bio-Psych
graduate programs: Biology, BEES, MEES
visit lab page most recent publicationsRESEARCH INTERESTS
My research involves meshing field biology with theoretical models to address critical questions in community ecology and conservation biology. I believe that ecological theory will be strengthened if it is forced to help solve real-world problems, and that conservation biology involves difficult choices that demand quantitative approaches. My ongoing research falls in several areas that illustrate this melding of theory and problem-solving, including 1) spatial ecological dynamics, 2) ecoinformatics, biodiversity databases, and conservation planning, and 3) biological stoichiometry and paleoecostoichioproteomics.
Recent Publications
Elser, J.J., W.F. Fagan, S. Subramanian, and S. Kumar. 2006. Signatures of ecological resource availability in the animal and plant proteomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution . In press. PDF / abstract
Kerkhoff, A.J., W.F. Fagan , J.J. Elser, and B. J. Enquist. 2006. Phylogenetic and functional variation in the scaling of nitrogen and phosphorus in the seed plants. American Naturalist. 168 (4): E103-E122. PDF / abstract .